She dove straight into it.
“There’s too much to get into, some of which hasn’t been finalized, including final battle plans,” she said. She hesitated. “I’ll only let you know what’s relevant to you, for now—I’ll catch you up on the rest when they’re decided.”
Which sounded sensible to him.
Reina nodd...
2025-11-18 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Scryer’s Guild had come through for him, leaving three letters behind—one from the Delver King’s Tower, one from the Thousand Seas Tribe, and the last from the World Tree. That last letter had Reina’s neat script on it, and it was sealed with rune-stamped wax. He could feel it was bound to his soul signature. It was a precaution she ...
2025-11-17 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt the difference instantly. Every single cell in his body was awash with brilliant essence—and then, suddenly, it ceased.
If you inspected his physique in the Astral Plane, you’d still see them lit up bright; you could see the quality jam-packed into his muscles. But they no longer gave off an aura.
His body now felt quite ...
2025-11-16 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMore days went by, then weeks, each satisfyingly strenuous.
Zane spent his days stacking Z-Platinum all over his body. It wasn’t an even distribution, precisely. Part of that was due to what he was training. Dead hauls and deadlifts tended to hit the pulling muscles, so his back and biceps got plenty of tempering. He also made sure to ge...
2025-11-13 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Quick note on the System Store!
Added in a note to previous chapters clarifying that System Store items can only be used by the purchaser—there’s an icon denoting that it’s a System Store item. The System wants to enforce a meritocratic use of the store; same reason why Store Credits are generally...
2025-11-12 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Minor point, but in 591, Zane only eats steel until he's full, not enough steel for the next 'several days'!
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That last statement only worsened the Ghoul Doctor’s apprehensions. When the Master grew fixated like this it was either a very good thing, or a very, very bad one.
“Revisions?” said Dares...
2025-11-11 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostZane had to grin. He always liked when the Sage got like this.
He felt it wasn’t just the Sage going on, either. He remembered the Sage saying something about being unreasonable earlier. It just seemed to be how the Sage had gotten this far in the first place.
Whether the Sage could do something or he couldn’t, he’d always thin...
2025-11-10 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThat one he’d seen coming, honestly. He’d done a ton of legwork there fighting all that gravity… he must’ve gotten down nearly a thousand Red Giant steps in total. His quads were still burning. He had a feeling they would be for a little while.
Still, he tested out a Red Giant step and saw that level granted him a little more than ...
2025-11-09 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Kaijuu looked confused at first, but then it gave a roar of fury. It seemed to think Zane was toying with it, which he wasn’t doing at all. He really did just want it to give him everything it could muster.
Then it squinted at him. After the first few punches it seemed to realize he was up to something. He wasn’t really fighting wi...
2025-11-06 02:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostHe was champing at the bit to get a feel for that Law again.
Just then the Kaijuu shrieked—this time, triumphantly. Zane felt it in its soul, too, even from this far out.
It wanted to tell him it was bigger. It was putting a stamp on that tail-whack, like it wanted him to know it’d won that exchange.
It did put a grin on hi...
2025-11-05 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne more heartbeat of silence. Then—
THUNK. THUNK. THUNK—
The surface of the core shivered a little more with each giant step.
And he knew the Kaijuu was coming.
He felt more curious than anything, though he was pretty hopeful too.
“You stand your ground now, lad!” roared the Sage, somewhere far abo...
2025-11-04 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf just loading Pure Size in would take ten to twenty years… Zane thought about it.
He and Reina had budgeted somewhere around twenty-five years, start to finish, for this Concept.
That’d be ideal—it’d give him enough time to break through to True God, take in some shards, and then test-drive his new powers before the War pro...
2025-11-03 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage gave him a wave. “Take a look in the Astral Plane!”
When Zane did, he saw this translucent shining image shrouding the plate—an image of the plate, blown up a thousandfold. He saw the impact it made, the force it exerted, in how much it shone.
It all felt quite clear to him.
And he had to thank the Sage—that li...
2025-11-02 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostZane was pleasantly surprised, actually. He was less wrecked than he thought he’d be. With what the Sage had said earlier, he’d been ready for the kitchen sink to be thrown at him. The Sage had a habit of being a bit optimistic as to what Zane could take on. Granted, Zane himself had that same attitude and it worked out most of the time. Tho...
2025-10-30 01:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe deadlift platform had an industrial feel to it. It looked like the kind of thing he might see around shipping containers. It was twenty feet thick and built of some of the highest-grade steels and runes in all of Boot Camp. It was clearly meant to take some pretty heavy loads.
There were three main parts to it—the deadlifting platfor...
2025-10-29 01:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sage gave Zane a quick tour of all the most important stations in Boot Camp, starting with the planet-sized lunk of steel smack-dab in the middle. It was also the closest station to the teleporter.
“This here’s your go-to punch trainer,” said the Sage. “It’s the very same one I showed you in that letter a few years back. Hasn...
2025-10-28 01:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostZane didn’t want to get ahead of himself, but he liked this Concept quite a bit already.
It sounded clear and straightforward, and it neatly explained the effects he’d seen on the Kaijuu. The Sage hitting much bigger than his fist should’ve allowed, and all that.
Seeing the Sage detonate all over that thing had been a great adv...
2025-10-27 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter was accidentally posted yesterday. It was up for about 20 mins before I noticed the mistake, sorry for the confusion folks!
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The next morning, Zane set off for the Conclave.
Before he headed off he said his final goodbyes to his friends.
Evan reported that he was slightly ahead of sch...
2025-10-26 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: To those who got an extra notification, I accidentally published Oct 25's chapter a day early! Sorry for the confusion folks--it'll come out same time as usual
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Dya stood waiting at the gates, flanked by two of Reina’s Silver Winds in shiny silver gear. She looked quite nervous—a bit jumpy. But she beamed...
2025-10-23 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll see you out there,” said Reina, looking quite pleased.
“When will you join me?” he asked.
“Not at the start, since I’ll be needed in Dragonspire Command,” she said. “And if this goes as long as we’re projecting, I won’t be able to be with you every hour of the day. But in the critical moments, I’ll be th...
2025-10-22 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the heart of the Galaxy, where the worst of the fighting will take place,” Reina continued. “It’s where you’re most needed this time, Zane. This won’t be like the last War.”
She pointed out a tiny dot on the frontier, zooming in a bit so he could see it more clearly. A little cloudy blue speck, instantly recognizabl...
2025-10-21 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostReina and Zane met them at the teleporter hub.
“Evan was just telling me how bad a matchup that Trial Champion was for Chomper,” said Reina. She glanced worriedly at the teleporters. “I hope he’s made it out alright…”
Not long after, Evan barreled through a teleporter with Chomper right behind him. He tackled them both in...
2025-10-20 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the weekend, Zane and Reina gave their best effort at maxing out her Minor God levels, which she was quite close to. It was difficult work, but they managed it with some persistence and dedication.
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Afterward Zane found himself in a familiar position—with a quite satisfied yet drowsy Reina on his chest.
Zane was happy...
2025-10-19 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThese days, he often didn’t get a System message explaining the backgrounds and uses of certain treasures. The steels he’d gotten back in the Ruins were a good example. Steels were pretty self-explanatory, he supposed, but he got the feeling it had to do with the rarity of the item as well. Origin-grade items were quite rare, and he sometime...
2025-10-16 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Added a brief section to last chapter where Malzareth talks about the Savage Sage title!
Zane Walker…
They were such weak, insignificant creatures. Yet he and that woman had proven infuriatingly difficult to crush.
At each stage in his development, Zane ...
2025-10-15 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe lowest floor of the Superdungeon was a floor of nothingness, save for one thing: a cage at its very center. A cage made to hold the Superdungeon’s most dangerous prisoner.
The first thing one would notice, just looking at it, was the giant river of sheer destruction. Nearly a slab’s worth condensed in liquid form, flowing a mile ac...
2025-10-14 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHreinn twitched.
He wasn’t smiling so much now.
“That,” he hissed. “Is quite the story. And it might even hold up remarkably well, in this little telling! Except for one thing… this all presumes you had the ability. It presumes you really could change runes that I, a Prime Endbringer of Malzareth 2025-10-13 01:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The young masters watched in silence as Jack finished off the Astrolith King. Fists clenched, wrenching back his chains. The very same he’d used to bring down the giant.
“He just keeps going!” said the Drawn Sword Sect young master, eyes shining.
That was the strongest impression Jack made on them—his relentlessness. Even aft...
2025-10-12 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edited in that the King is 500 feet tall!
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Kain had gotten him off to a good start. It’d be much easier to bring the King down now with it wobbled like this. Right now it couldn’t even brace properly.
It was a simple maneuver, putting the King down—at first it almost fe...
2025-10-09 01:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe young masters watched from a safe distance as the three strongest powers in the Pure Yang Lands started walloping each other.
Because of the sheer blast radius of the landing, it was impossible to ambush the King Astrolith as it spawned. You just couldn’t get close enough without getting caught in the blast.
Then there was its ...
2025-10-08 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post